Veveyse District (; ; ) is one of seven districts in the

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. It has a population of (as of ). It takes its name from the river Veveyse which flows through the district.

Municipalities

It consists of the following municipalities:

Coat of arms

The

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of the district

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is ''Or, an Eagle displayed Sable.''

Demographics

Veveyse has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French (11,566 or 91.7%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (345 or 2.7%) and Portuguese is the third (306 or 2.4%). There are 86 people who speak

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and 3 people who speak Romansh. , the population was 49.9% male and 50.1% female. The population was made up of 6,393 Swiss men (41.1% of the population) and 1,358 (8.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 6,586 Swiss women (42.4%) and 1,203 (7.7%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 Of the population in the district, 4,511 or about 35.8% were born in Veveyse and lived there in 2000. There were 2,746 or 21.8% who were born in the same canton, while 3,263 or 25.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,678 or 13.3% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 5,297 people who were single and never married in the district. There were 6,001 married individuals, 699 widows or widowers and 617 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 There were 1,447 households that consist of only one person and 406 households with five or more people. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:13000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:3000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:600 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:7132 text:"7,132" bar:1860 from:start till:7434 text:"7,434" bar:1870 from:start till:7834 text:"7,834" bar:1880 from:start till:7764 text:"7,764" bar:1888 from:start till:7790 text:"7,790" bar:1900 from:start till:8402 text:"8,402" bar:1910 from:start till:8863 text:"8,863" bar:1920 from:start till:8504 text:"8,504" bar:1930 from:start till:8435 text:"8,435" bar:1941 from:start till:8704 text:"8,704" bar:1950 from:start till:8610 text:"8,610" bar:1960 from:start till:7802 text:"7,802" bar:1970 from:start till:7854 text:"7,854" bar:1980 from:start till:8697 text:"8,697" bar:1990 from:start till:10603 text:"10,603" bar:2000 from:start till:12614 text:"12,614" #NUM! #NUM!

Mergers and name changes

* On 1 January 1968 the former municipality of La Rougève merged into Semsales. * On 1 January 2004 the former municipalities of Bouloz, Pont (Veveyse) and Porsel merged to form the new municipality of Le Flon, the former municipalities of Grattavache, Le Crêt and Progens merged to form the new municipality of La Verrerie and the former municipalities of Besencens and Fiaugères merged into the previously existing municipality of Saint-Martin.
accessed 4 April 2011

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 28.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (27.2%), the CVP (18.2%) and the FDP (8.4%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 The SPS improved their position in Veveyse rising to first, from second in 2007 (with 24.7%) The SVP moved from first in 2007 (with 30.2%) to second in 2011, the CVP lost popularity (24.0% in 2007) and the FDP retained about the same popularity (9.8% in 2007). A total of 4,473 votes were cast in this election, of which 61 or 1.4% were invalid.

Religion

From the , 9,046 or 71.7% were

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, while 1,669 or 13.2% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 71 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.56% of the population), there were 8 individuals (or about 0.06% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 268 individuals (or about 2.12% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 6 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who were

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, and 239 (or about 1.89% of the population) who were

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ic. There were 14 individuals who were

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, 2 individuals who were

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and 10 individuals who belonged to another church. 927 (or about 7.35% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 482 individuals (or about 3.82% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Veveyse about 4,111 or (32.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 1,259 or (10.0%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 1,259 who completed tertiary schooling, 57.8% were Swiss men, 26.4% were Swiss women, 8.8% were non-Swiss men and 7.0% were non-Swiss women. The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory

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, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium (university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their

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.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 2,377 students attending 122 classes in Veveyse. A total of 2,889 students from the district attended any school, either in the district or outside of it. There were 20 kindergarten classes with a total of 350 students in the district. The district had 68 primary classes and 1,336 students. During the same year, there were 32 lower secondary classes with a total of 660 students. There was one upper Secondary class, with 20 upper Secondary students. The district had one special Tertiary class, with 11 specialized Tertiary students.

References

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